Morgan
Unregistered | Hi,
I was thinking about changing my 100Mbps network to gigabit. I want to achieve around 100MB/s. What do i need for this to work?
I was thinking about:
 1Gbps switch (Level1)
Category 6 cabling
Realtek PCI 1Gbps network cards
Would this be sufficient to reach gigabit? I will use both Windows XP and FreeBSD/FreeNAS. |
Enlightenment
Administrator
 108 posts | Reach 100MB/s with what? Samba? NFS? That matters. Even if your hardware can do 100MB/s, software like Samba does not behave as well as it could. I've seen 55MB/s in reality where there's 90MB/s network bandwidth tested with Iperf.
But yeah a good switch (with sufficient backplane).
Cat6 cabling is good
Realtek chips aren't that good, also avoid PCI if possible. Use PCI-express or your onboard gigabit NIC.
The Intel Pro/1000 PT PCI-express cards are good, and well supported in FreeBSD/FreeNAS by the em driver. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output. |
